Month: March 2016

Here is a preview of the RocHackHealth 2016 challenges! Full information and data will be posted on Friday April 8, 2016. But just in case you are curious: Challenge #1: Predicting Hospital Re-Admissions: In this challenge, your team will try to predict which patients will be re-admitted to the hospital after being discharged from a[…]

“Hacking Healthcare” is a term coined by Fred Trotter, a journalist and healthcare hactivist, in his book by the same name. Healthcare hacking is white hat hacking to improve the safety, efficiency, transparency, equality, and delivery of healthcare. At the foundation of hacking healthcare is data. Fred began one of the first efforts to open large US government data[…]

REGISTRATION INFORMATION You may register as a team or individual – however if you are part of a team Please register with your team One member of the team should register the entire team – Teams are limited to 5 members – Registration requires that you know the email addresses of each member of your[…]